Is Google Safe Browsing falling short on mobile?

  Google has a pretty good record when it comes to protecting its users against online threats. Part of this is its Safe Browsing technology which scans billions of URLs each day to discover dangerous websites. But research by mobile threat defense specialist Wandera has discovered a disparity between the protections available within Google’s desktop browser compared to its mobile browser. Over a period of eight months, Wandera's threat research team repeatedly found that URLs that were being flagged as 'deceptive sites' when opened through the Google Chrome desktop browser were not being identified as malicious on the Chrome mobile app. The… [Continue Reading]